Dr Obeid Mahomed

Dr Obeid Mahomed holds a PhD in Quantitative Finance from the University of Cape Town, a BSc(Hons) in Advanced Mathematics of Finance from the University of Witwatersrand, and a BSc in Actuarial Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is currently the Head of Quantitative Analysis at Absa CIB. He previously held a full-time academic position at AIFMRM, where he served as Degree Convenor and occasionally as Acting Director. His teaching spanned across both the MCom in Risk Management of Financial Markets and the MPhil in Mathematical Finance programmes. Prior to that he was employed on a full-time basis within the financial services sector and gained extensive exposure to banking, asset management, insurance and sell-side broking - his roles evolved from Quantitative Analyst to Head of Quantitative Research within the investment and stockbroking industries before he moved on to become a Senior Risk Manager at Standard Bank. Obeid’s research interests include modern derivative valuation and risk management, interest rate modelling, data science, and contributing to the advancement of quantitative finance across Africa.